Source: European Parliament
Harmonised standards in support of the Radio Equipment Directive[1] might be used by manufacturers on a voluntary basis for placing on the EU market purposes.
They aim to ensure compliance with the products’ legal requirements and to ensure a level playing field for manufacturers, without prejudice to other EU policies on the deployment of a specific infrastructure.
With regards to the potential delisting of harmonised standard EN 302 571, the Commission is currently discussing the matter with Member States and stakeholders in the relevant expert group. No decision has been taken yet.
As underlined in the Vademecum on European standardisation[2], harmonised standards are expected to be performance based and technology neutral so to avoid to ‘unfairly discriminate against certain products, services or economic operators, […]’.
The standard EN 303 798 is not listed in support of the Radio Equipment Directive and has not been ever offered by European Telecommunications Standards Institute to the Commission in respect to the mandate M/536.
Therefore, it has no legal value as regards the aforementioned Directive. The Commission has not funded the development of the standard EN 303 798.
- [1] Directive 2014/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment and repealing Directive 1999/5/EC ( OJ L 153, 22.5.2014, p. 62-106); ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/53/oj
- [2] https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/13509/attachments/1/translations